She takes the post on July 1
The Ontario Court of Justice has appointed justice of the peace Christina Louise Logue as regional senior justice of the peace to the East Region.
She steps into the role on July 1. She has served as senior Indigenous justice of the peace since last year, guiding her coworkers on Indigenous matters.
Logue joined the Ontario Court of Justice in 2010, sitting in Ottawa. Previously, she spent 16 years with the Ottawa Police Service.
She was Ottawa Police Service Youth Strategy Office manager, supervising the implementation of prevention, intervention, diversion, and educational initiatives for at-risk youth. Moreover, she seconded as RCMP Intervention and Diversion Program director.
Logue was part of what is now the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association and once chaired the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health board. She received the member of the Governor General’s Order of Merit in 2007, the Order of Ontario in 2011, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for Public Service in 2012.
Her regional senior justice of the peace appointment was announced by Ontario attorney general Doug Downey.
Vickramjeet Aujla, Matthew Raymond Caputo, Kenneth Asher Fishman, Sean Peter Horgan, and Anya Kortenaar also joined the Ontario Court of Justice as judges.
Aujla started as an assistant Crown attorney with the Peel Crown Attorney’s Office in Brampton. In this role, he prosecuted serious and complex criminal cases. He moved to the Orangeville Crown Attorney’s Office in 2024 and was named the Crown attorney for Dufferin County, managing all criminal prosecutions.
He has been assigned to Orangeville by chief justice Sharon Nicklas.
Caputo commenced his career as a municipal prosecutor with the City of Sault Ste. Marie before moving to Peter Bortolussi’s private practice in 2016 to form Bortolussi Caputo Lawyers. He then became an assistant Crown attorney in North Region in 2018 before joining the North Region Internet Child Exploitation Team as lead in 2023.
He has been assigned to Sault Ste. Marie by the chief justice.
Fishman has practised with Rayson Bond LLP, Basman Smith LLP, and Boulby Weinberg Fishman LLP. He served as part-time vice chair on the Licence Appeal Tribunal and was on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board part time, where he joined hearings involving compensation claims for victims of violent crime.
He has been assigned to Toronto by the chief justice.
Horgan has worked with the Etobicoke Crown Attorney’s Office and with the Ontario Securities Commission, where he was a senior litigation counsel and manager. He became a counsel in the appeals group of the Crown Law Office – criminal in 2019 before transitioning to the Special Prosecutions Unit. He served as chief counsel of the Major Auto Theft Prosecution Response Team in the Complex Prosecutions Bureau.
He has been assigned to Oshawa by the chief justice.
Kortenaar has worked with the Pembroke Crown Attorney’s Office and the Ottawa Crown Attorney’s Office. She then joined the Provincial Human Trafficking Prosecution Team as Crown counsel before taking up a role as assistant Crown attorney with the Guns and Gangs Team (East Region), in which she prosecuted firearm cases.
She has been assigned to Ottawa by the chief justice.
